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Saturday, March 08, 2008

Oil Prices To Sucketh?

We don't know nothin' about nothin', but yikes, $200/barrel? Could that happen far sooner than later?

If this happens, what exactly happens? Do local gasoline prices crank higher? If so, what then? Public transportation?* Car pooling? Telecommuting? What happens when unemployed folks can't even afford to drive to job interviews?

Anyway, we don't actually know (and we don't even know if oil will hit that high... this soon). We guess our real question is, "How high does oil have to go before the United States gets serious about alternative energy?"

Comments

There is no shortage for oil. There is record setting amounts of oil being produced daily. The oil companies are simply putting up the price of fuels because they can. They know that us stupids are going to buy it. What needs to happen is for us to boycott, and not buy any fuels. This would be impossible, but it is the only way. And you cannot only boycott it for a day, it would have to be at least for a month. And the whole world would have to participate in this.